The Dragon Lady -

Louisa Treger

Bloomsbury Caravel

2019

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-10: 1448217261

"I've spent a lifetime trying to forget, yet the smallest thing takes me back to the time the Dragon Lady was shot."

From the glamorous Italian Riviera of the roaring twenties to the Art Deco glory of Eltham Palace in the 1930s, from the secluded Scottish Highlands to sultry, segregated Rhodesia in the 1950s, The Dragon Lady tells the story of the extraordinary life of Lady Virginia Courtauld, so called for the exotic tattoo snaking up her leg.

Ostracized by society for being a foreign divorcée at the time of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson, Ginie and her second husband Stephen Courtauld leave the confines of post-war Britain to forge a new life in Rhodesia, only to find that being progressive liberals during segregation proves mortally dangerous. A shocking attack on Ginie sets the stage for an evocative mystery that connects the past and the present.

Subtly blending fact and fiction, deeply evocative of time and place in an era of great social change and threaded throughout with intrigue, this novel keeps the reader guessing from the outset who shot the Dragon Lady and why.